Bellum
10-04-2007, 02:21
Wow, I was almost through with this, and my frickin ELECTRICITY flickered, and I thought I had lost it all. Thankfully, Firefox was miraculously able to save it all. :2thumbsup:
Well, I attempted to install a fresh version of RTW+BI for another mod. I don't have much experience with RTW in this respect, so I was surprised to find out that I (apparently) couldn't install multiple instances of the game on the computer. 'Ok', I said to myself, and I backed up the entire RTW folder, and uninstalled. Afterward, I changed the target of the EB shortcut to the new folder 'Actitest'. All seemed well and good, until I got a CTD and couldn't get back into the game. *sigh*
So I thought....'hmm'... And I went ahead and installed RTW+BI. I installed it into C:/program files/activision/etc.etc. and copied it into D:/program files/activison/etc.etc. (which is where RTW was before) and tried to install a fresh version of EB over that.
NOTE:
I'm on a dial-up connection that resets every 3 hours or so, so downloading EB has become extremely tough. I have EB08-setup, EB081-patch, EB081av2Patch, and the EBv81a3 zip file.
So, I was confused, because the installer didn't ask for a directory, but it went through with it. After installing all of the patches (in the order listed above), I noticed that my old RTWvanilla+EB folder looked different from my new one, but I tried it out anyway. That led to errors (soandso screwed up at line 11), and I couldn't play. So then I was tired of the whole thing, and replaced my new EB and data folders with my old ones (which probably wasn't all that smart, as my old folders weren't for EB).
This is the state I'm in now. EB works, but it's acting oddly. I started a Casse campaign, exited out. After quiting the game entirely, I got an odd error msg about how So and so wasn't connected to the family tree. I was able to load it back up well enough, though. I checked my family tree, and all is well (though my original faction leader died in 272, don't know if that's normal).
That works all well and good, but I would feel safer if I could get a clean install in. I had a bad feeling that something must have been wrong with my EB08-setup, so I was fiddling around with it to see if I could choose directories, and I hit reset. This had the adverse effect of changing the 'soandsodiskusage' to 0.
So, yes! I think I've more or less screwed everything up. :beam:
Well, I attempted to install a fresh version of RTW+BI for another mod. I don't have much experience with RTW in this respect, so I was surprised to find out that I (apparently) couldn't install multiple instances of the game on the computer. 'Ok', I said to myself, and I backed up the entire RTW folder, and uninstalled. Afterward, I changed the target of the EB shortcut to the new folder 'Actitest'. All seemed well and good, until I got a CTD and couldn't get back into the game. *sigh*
So I thought....'hmm'... And I went ahead and installed RTW+BI. I installed it into C:/program files/activision/etc.etc. and copied it into D:/program files/activison/etc.etc. (which is where RTW was before) and tried to install a fresh version of EB over that.
NOTE:
I'm on a dial-up connection that resets every 3 hours or so, so downloading EB has become extremely tough. I have EB08-setup, EB081-patch, EB081av2Patch, and the EBv81a3 zip file.
So, I was confused, because the installer didn't ask for a directory, but it went through with it. After installing all of the patches (in the order listed above), I noticed that my old RTWvanilla+EB folder looked different from my new one, but I tried it out anyway. That led to errors (soandso screwed up at line 11), and I couldn't play. So then I was tired of the whole thing, and replaced my new EB and data folders with my old ones (which probably wasn't all that smart, as my old folders weren't for EB).
This is the state I'm in now. EB works, but it's acting oddly. I started a Casse campaign, exited out. After quiting the game entirely, I got an odd error msg about how So and so wasn't connected to the family tree. I was able to load it back up well enough, though. I checked my family tree, and all is well (though my original faction leader died in 272, don't know if that's normal).
That works all well and good, but I would feel safer if I could get a clean install in. I had a bad feeling that something must have been wrong with my EB08-setup, so I was fiddling around with it to see if I could choose directories, and I hit reset. This had the adverse effect of changing the 'soandsodiskusage' to 0.
So, yes! I think I've more or less screwed everything up. :beam: